Skill tree, node-based building animation, bigger UI, and a 19x faster test suite
Gameplay and UI
- Research tree at the mothership gates which structures can be built and
grants permanent fleet-capacity upgrades (GameState.SKILL_TREE,
SkillTreeView). Node depth is derived from prerequisites, so the layout
cannot drift out of step with the dependencies.
- Building info popup before committing to a build, with per-building cost
and description.
- Ship crafter redrawn as a space factory with an assembly animation;
mothership redrawn as a radial flagship; command centre as a plotting hub.
- Keyboard and mouse support (WASD, Q/E pivot, wheel zoom) for the web build.
- UI and font scaled up for phone use, via a custom Theme resource -
gui/theme/default_font_size does not reach the default theme.
- Asteroids no longer spawn on top of the fleet's start position.
- Fleet formation origin derived from the layout's own offsets rather than
the centroid, fixing the lurch when a lopsided formation started moving.
- Fleet.stop() brakes from the ship's TRUE motion (velocity +
fleet_velocity). Ship zeroes its velocity when seated in its slot even
while the anchor drags that slot forward, so braking from velocity alone
stopped the fleet dead instead of coasting - and whether it did depended
on the frame rate.
Animation architecture (issue #10)
- Buildings, projectiles and explosion VFX no longer animate by redrawing.
Static geometry is rasterised once in _draw(); moving parts are NeonPiece
children animated through node properties, which reuse the cached
geometry. Every NeonDraw call expands into four antialiased polylines, so
redrawing to move something re-tessellated all of it.
Test suite (issue #8): 1075s -> ~55s
- Runs from a copy on Termux's own filesystem. The project lives on
Android's FUSE bridge, read through proot, where load("res://Main.tscn")
alone cost 8.5s per test against ~2s natively - and nearly every test
loads it.
- Runs 6 tests at a time, in a single proot-distro login, with output
buffered per test and printed only on failure.
- --fixed-fps 60 pins delta instead of measuring the wall clock, so a test's
result no longer depends on how busy the machine is. Without it,
parallelism made two tests fail on 2 of 3 runs.
- A test passes only if it both exits 0 and prints ": PASS".
- 38 tests, green on three consecutive runs.
Bundles Carrois Gothic SC (Apache 2.0) with its licence text.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 15:00:41 +02:00
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class_name NeonPiece
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extends Node2D
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# One movable piece of neon art, rasterised ONCE and thereafter animated
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# only through node properties.
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#
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# Godot re-runs _draw() solely when a redraw is requested; changing
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# position/rotation/scale/modulate/visible reuses the cached geometry
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# instead. Since every NeonDraw call expands into four antialiased
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# polylines, redrawing a shape each frame just to move or fade it is the
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# expensive way to do the cheapest kind of animation. Ship.gd and
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# Asteroid.gd already work this way - this is the same idea packaged so a
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# building can be assembled out of independently movable parts.
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#
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# Geometry is defined in local space around the piece's own origin, so the
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# owner can move, spin, scale and fade it without touching the shape.
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var polygons: Array = []
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Stop redrawing what only needs moving
Reviewed against the rule issues #6 and #10 set for the buildings: geometry
is rasterised once and thereafter only moved, scaled or faded, because every
NeonDraw call expands into four antialiased polylines.
The planet visuals never got that refactor. The black hole rebuilt ten
glowing paths of twenty-five points every frame - forty polylines - to spin
five rings; each ring is a NeonPiece that rotates now. The research lab spent
nine draw calls a frame, eight of them fixed geometry, to turn one dish and
blink six lights; the dish is a child that rotates and the lights a child
whose modulate breathes. The gas giant's bands genuinely deform, so they
still draw, but its constant rim moved out to a child. NeonPiece gained
add_path, which it needed for open arcs.
And I had broken the rule myself. ScannerGuidance re-queued a redraw of its
arrow every frame for a colour that changes only with the destination - and
it runs with PROCESS_MODE_ALWAYS, so it was re-tessellating through every
dialog that stops the rest of the game. Guarded, and pinned by a test that
counts CanvasItem's own draw signal: 36 rasterisations in 0.6s before, one
after.
Two smaller things from the same pass: the station menu drew its condition
bar by hand where the ship lab already uses a ProgressBar node, so it uses
one now and its _draw is gone; and station/upkeep refreshes were wired into
_refresh_garrison(), which nothing but a test calls, so both menus showed
whatever was true when they opened.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019AJMdB7iuHuLFZM1aBu3GD
2026-09-08 11:35:45 +02:00
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# Open runs of points, as distinct from `polygons`, which close. An accretion
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# disc is arcs, not rings, so it needs the open form to be a piece at all.
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var paths: Array = []
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Skill tree, node-based building animation, bigger UI, and a 19x faster test suite
Gameplay and UI
- Research tree at the mothership gates which structures can be built and
grants permanent fleet-capacity upgrades (GameState.SKILL_TREE,
SkillTreeView). Node depth is derived from prerequisites, so the layout
cannot drift out of step with the dependencies.
- Building info popup before committing to a build, with per-building cost
and description.
- Ship crafter redrawn as a space factory with an assembly animation;
mothership redrawn as a radial flagship; command centre as a plotting hub.
- Keyboard and mouse support (WASD, Q/E pivot, wheel zoom) for the web build.
- UI and font scaled up for phone use, via a custom Theme resource -
gui/theme/default_font_size does not reach the default theme.
- Asteroids no longer spawn on top of the fleet's start position.
- Fleet formation origin derived from the layout's own offsets rather than
the centroid, fixing the lurch when a lopsided formation started moving.
- Fleet.stop() brakes from the ship's TRUE motion (velocity +
fleet_velocity). Ship zeroes its velocity when seated in its slot even
while the anchor drags that slot forward, so braking from velocity alone
stopped the fleet dead instead of coasting - and whether it did depended
on the frame rate.
Animation architecture (issue #10)
- Buildings, projectiles and explosion VFX no longer animate by redrawing.
Static geometry is rasterised once in _draw(); moving parts are NeonPiece
children animated through node properties, which reuse the cached
geometry. Every NeonDraw call expands into four antialiased polylines, so
redrawing to move something re-tessellated all of it.
Test suite (issue #8): 1075s -> ~55s
- Runs from a copy on Termux's own filesystem. The project lives on
Android's FUSE bridge, read through proot, where load("res://Main.tscn")
alone cost 8.5s per test against ~2s natively - and nearly every test
loads it.
- Runs 6 tests at a time, in a single proot-distro login, with output
buffered per test and printed only on failure.
- --fixed-fps 60 pins delta instead of measuring the wall clock, so a test's
result no longer depends on how busy the machine is. Without it,
parallelism made two tests fail on 2 of 3 runs.
- A test passes only if it both exits 0 and prints ": PASS".
- 38 tests, green on three consecutive runs.
Bundles Carrois Gothic SC (Apache 2.0) with its licence text.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 15:00:41 +02:00
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var lines: Array = []
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var glow_color: Color = Color.WHITE
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var core_color: Color = NeonDraw.DEFAULT_CORE
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var pulse: float = 1.0
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static func create(parent: Node, at: Vector2, colour: Color, alpha: float = 1.0) -> NeonPiece:
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var piece: NeonPiece = NeonPiece.new()
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piece.position = at
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piece.glow_color = colour
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piece.modulate.a = alpha
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parent.add_child(piece)
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return piece
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#232: stop rebuilding the gas vents every frame
GasVentField called queue_redraw() every frame and its _draw rebuilt six
vents of seven glowing polygons each - 168 antialiased polylines
re-tessellated per frame, since every NeonDraw call expands into four.
Measured first: 40 rasterisations over 30 frames, costing 6.6ms against a
32.4ms floor. For scale, the black hole's cached disc costs 0.1ms.
Both halves are pieces now. The sources never move, never recolour and never
fade, so they are rasterised once. The rising bubbles genuinely change size
and opacity, but size is scale and opacity is modulate - neither needs the
geometry rebuilding. 40 rasterisations over 30 frames became 0.
Two things worth recording.
The static extraction alone measured NOTHING - 7.1ms against 6.6ms, inside
the noise. softpipe is a CPU rasteriser: it prices FILL, and cached geometry
fills the same pixels. It cannot see a tessellation saving at all. After the
full change the frame time read NEGATIVE with the floor drifting 28 to 39ms
between runs, so no millisecond figure is claimed here. The rasterisation
count is the reproducible result; what it is worth on a phone is unmeasured.
And scaling a NeonPiece scales its STROKE with it. The bubbles were first
built as unit circles scaled up by their radius, which multiplied NeonDraw's
widths by five to fourteen - a hundred pixels of glow around a fourteen
pixel bubble. They rendered as bright blobs, the rasterisation count said
40 -> 0, and only the screenshot disagreed. Built at the largest radius and
scaled DOWN now, so the stroke only ever thins. The trap is noted at the
call site: scale is safe for moving and shrinking a piece and quietly wrong
for growing one.
NeonPiece.add_polygon gained a width, which it needed to keep the vents'
authored stroke rather than silently fattening them.
179/179.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019AJMdB7iuHuLFZM1aBu3GD
2026-09-14 13:29:22 -04:00
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func add_polygon(points: PackedVector2Array, piece_pulse: float = 1.0,
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width: float = 1.0) -> void:
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polygons.append({"points": points, "pulse": piece_pulse, "width": width})
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Skill tree, node-based building animation, bigger UI, and a 19x faster test suite
Gameplay and UI
- Research tree at the mothership gates which structures can be built and
grants permanent fleet-capacity upgrades (GameState.SKILL_TREE,
SkillTreeView). Node depth is derived from prerequisites, so the layout
cannot drift out of step with the dependencies.
- Building info popup before committing to a build, with per-building cost
and description.
- Ship crafter redrawn as a space factory with an assembly animation;
mothership redrawn as a radial flagship; command centre as a plotting hub.
- Keyboard and mouse support (WASD, Q/E pivot, wheel zoom) for the web build.
- UI and font scaled up for phone use, via a custom Theme resource -
gui/theme/default_font_size does not reach the default theme.
- Asteroids no longer spawn on top of the fleet's start position.
- Fleet formation origin derived from the layout's own offsets rather than
the centroid, fixing the lurch when a lopsided formation started moving.
- Fleet.stop() brakes from the ship's TRUE motion (velocity +
fleet_velocity). Ship zeroes its velocity when seated in its slot even
while the anchor drags that slot forward, so braking from velocity alone
stopped the fleet dead instead of coasting - and whether it did depended
on the frame rate.
Animation architecture (issue #10)
- Buildings, projectiles and explosion VFX no longer animate by redrawing.
Static geometry is rasterised once in _draw(); moving parts are NeonPiece
children animated through node properties, which reuse the cached
geometry. Every NeonDraw call expands into four antialiased polylines, so
redrawing to move something re-tessellated all of it.
Test suite (issue #8): 1075s -> ~55s
- Runs from a copy on Termux's own filesystem. The project lives on
Android's FUSE bridge, read through proot, where load("res://Main.tscn")
alone cost 8.5s per test against ~2s natively - and nearly every test
loads it.
- Runs 6 tests at a time, in a single proot-distro login, with output
buffered per test and printed only on failure.
- --fixed-fps 60 pins delta instead of measuring the wall clock, so a test's
result no longer depends on how busy the machine is. Without it,
parallelism made two tests fail on 2 of 3 runs.
- A test passes only if it both exits 0 and prints ": PASS".
- 38 tests, green on three consecutive runs.
Bundles Carrois Gothic SC (Apache 2.0) with its licence text.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 15:00:41 +02:00
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Stop redrawing what only needs moving
Reviewed against the rule issues #6 and #10 set for the buildings: geometry
is rasterised once and thereafter only moved, scaled or faded, because every
NeonDraw call expands into four antialiased polylines.
The planet visuals never got that refactor. The black hole rebuilt ten
glowing paths of twenty-five points every frame - forty polylines - to spin
five rings; each ring is a NeonPiece that rotates now. The research lab spent
nine draw calls a frame, eight of them fixed geometry, to turn one dish and
blink six lights; the dish is a child that rotates and the lights a child
whose modulate breathes. The gas giant's bands genuinely deform, so they
still draw, but its constant rim moved out to a child. NeonPiece gained
add_path, which it needed for open arcs.
And I had broken the rule myself. ScannerGuidance re-queued a redraw of its
arrow every frame for a colour that changes only with the destination - and
it runs with PROCESS_MODE_ALWAYS, so it was re-tessellating through every
dialog that stops the rest of the game. Guarded, and pinned by a test that
counts CanvasItem's own draw signal: 36 rasterisations in 0.6s before, one
after.
Two smaller things from the same pass: the station menu drew its condition
bar by hand where the ship lab already uses a ProgressBar node, so it uses
one now and its _draw is gone; and station/upkeep refreshes were wired into
_refresh_garrison(), which nothing but a test calls, so both menus showed
whatever was true when they opened.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019AJMdB7iuHuLFZM1aBu3GD
2026-09-08 11:35:45 +02:00
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func add_path(points: PackedVector2Array, piece_pulse: float = 1.0,
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width: float = 1.0) -> void:
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paths.append({"points": points, "pulse": piece_pulse, "width": width})
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Skill tree, node-based building animation, bigger UI, and a 19x faster test suite
Gameplay and UI
- Research tree at the mothership gates which structures can be built and
grants permanent fleet-capacity upgrades (GameState.SKILL_TREE,
SkillTreeView). Node depth is derived from prerequisites, so the layout
cannot drift out of step with the dependencies.
- Building info popup before committing to a build, with per-building cost
and description.
- Ship crafter redrawn as a space factory with an assembly animation;
mothership redrawn as a radial flagship; command centre as a plotting hub.
- Keyboard and mouse support (WASD, Q/E pivot, wheel zoom) for the web build.
- UI and font scaled up for phone use, via a custom Theme resource -
gui/theme/default_font_size does not reach the default theme.
- Asteroids no longer spawn on top of the fleet's start position.
- Fleet formation origin derived from the layout's own offsets rather than
the centroid, fixing the lurch when a lopsided formation started moving.
- Fleet.stop() brakes from the ship's TRUE motion (velocity +
fleet_velocity). Ship zeroes its velocity when seated in its slot even
while the anchor drags that slot forward, so braking from velocity alone
stopped the fleet dead instead of coasting - and whether it did depended
on the frame rate.
Animation architecture (issue #10)
- Buildings, projectiles and explosion VFX no longer animate by redrawing.
Static geometry is rasterised once in _draw(); moving parts are NeonPiece
children animated through node properties, which reuse the cached
geometry. Every NeonDraw call expands into four antialiased polylines, so
redrawing to move something re-tessellated all of it.
Test suite (issue #8): 1075s -> ~55s
- Runs from a copy on Termux's own filesystem. The project lives on
Android's FUSE bridge, read through proot, where load("res://Main.tscn")
alone cost 8.5s per test against ~2s natively - and nearly every test
loads it.
- Runs 6 tests at a time, in a single proot-distro login, with output
buffered per test and printed only on failure.
- --fixed-fps 60 pins delta instead of measuring the wall clock, so a test's
result no longer depends on how busy the machine is. Without it,
parallelism made two tests fail on 2 of 3 runs.
- A test passes only if it both exits 0 and prints ": PASS".
- 38 tests, green on three consecutive runs.
Bundles Carrois Gothic SC (Apache 2.0) with its licence text.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 15:00:41 +02:00
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func add_line(from: Vector2, to: Vector2, width: float, piece_pulse: float = 1.0) -> void:
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lines.append({"from": from, "to": to, "width": width, "pulse": piece_pulse})
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func _draw() -> void:
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for poly in polygons:
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#232: stop rebuilding the gas vents every frame
GasVentField called queue_redraw() every frame and its _draw rebuilt six
vents of seven glowing polygons each - 168 antialiased polylines
re-tessellated per frame, since every NeonDraw call expands into four.
Measured first: 40 rasterisations over 30 frames, costing 6.6ms against a
32.4ms floor. For scale, the black hole's cached disc costs 0.1ms.
Both halves are pieces now. The sources never move, never recolour and never
fade, so they are rasterised once. The rising bubbles genuinely change size
and opacity, but size is scale and opacity is modulate - neither needs the
geometry rebuilding. 40 rasterisations over 30 frames became 0.
Two things worth recording.
The static extraction alone measured NOTHING - 7.1ms against 6.6ms, inside
the noise. softpipe is a CPU rasteriser: it prices FILL, and cached geometry
fills the same pixels. It cannot see a tessellation saving at all. After the
full change the frame time read NEGATIVE with the floor drifting 28 to 39ms
between runs, so no millisecond figure is claimed here. The rasterisation
count is the reproducible result; what it is worth on a phone is unmeasured.
And scaling a NeonPiece scales its STROKE with it. The bubbles were first
built as unit circles scaled up by their radius, which multiplied NeonDraw's
widths by five to fourteen - a hundred pixels of glow around a fourteen
pixel bubble. They rendered as bright blobs, the rasterisation count said
40 -> 0, and only the screenshot disagreed. Built at the largest radius and
scaled DOWN now, so the stroke only ever thins. The trap is noted at the
call site: scale is safe for moving and shrinking a piece and quietly wrong
for growing one.
NeonPiece.add_polygon gained a width, which it needed to keep the vents'
authored stroke rather than silently fattening them.
179/179.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019AJMdB7iuHuLFZM1aBu3GD
2026-09-14 13:29:22 -04:00
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NeonDraw.draw_glowing_polygon(self, poly.points, glow_color,
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poly.pulse * pulse, core_color, float(poly.get("width", 1.0)))
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Stop redrawing what only needs moving
Reviewed against the rule issues #6 and #10 set for the buildings: geometry
is rasterised once and thereafter only moved, scaled or faded, because every
NeonDraw call expands into four antialiased polylines.
The planet visuals never got that refactor. The black hole rebuilt ten
glowing paths of twenty-five points every frame - forty polylines - to spin
five rings; each ring is a NeonPiece that rotates now. The research lab spent
nine draw calls a frame, eight of them fixed geometry, to turn one dish and
blink six lights; the dish is a child that rotates and the lights a child
whose modulate breathes. The gas giant's bands genuinely deform, so they
still draw, but its constant rim moved out to a child. NeonPiece gained
add_path, which it needed for open arcs.
And I had broken the rule myself. ScannerGuidance re-queued a redraw of its
arrow every frame for a colour that changes only with the destination - and
it runs with PROCESS_MODE_ALWAYS, so it was re-tessellating through every
dialog that stops the rest of the game. Guarded, and pinned by a test that
counts CanvasItem's own draw signal: 36 rasterisations in 0.6s before, one
after.
Two smaller things from the same pass: the station menu drew its condition
bar by hand where the ship lab already uses a ProgressBar node, so it uses
one now and its _draw is gone; and station/upkeep refreshes were wired into
_refresh_garrison(), which nothing but a test calls, so both menus showed
whatever was true when they opened.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019AJMdB7iuHuLFZM1aBu3GD
2026-09-08 11:35:45 +02:00
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for path in paths:
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NeonDraw.draw_glowing_path(self, path.points, glow_color,
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path.pulse * pulse, path.width, core_color)
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Skill tree, node-based building animation, bigger UI, and a 19x faster test suite
Gameplay and UI
- Research tree at the mothership gates which structures can be built and
grants permanent fleet-capacity upgrades (GameState.SKILL_TREE,
SkillTreeView). Node depth is derived from prerequisites, so the layout
cannot drift out of step with the dependencies.
- Building info popup before committing to a build, with per-building cost
and description.
- Ship crafter redrawn as a space factory with an assembly animation;
mothership redrawn as a radial flagship; command centre as a plotting hub.
- Keyboard and mouse support (WASD, Q/E pivot, wheel zoom) for the web build.
- UI and font scaled up for phone use, via a custom Theme resource -
gui/theme/default_font_size does not reach the default theme.
- Asteroids no longer spawn on top of the fleet's start position.
- Fleet formation origin derived from the layout's own offsets rather than
the centroid, fixing the lurch when a lopsided formation started moving.
- Fleet.stop() brakes from the ship's TRUE motion (velocity +
fleet_velocity). Ship zeroes its velocity when seated in its slot even
while the anchor drags that slot forward, so braking from velocity alone
stopped the fleet dead instead of coasting - and whether it did depended
on the frame rate.
Animation architecture (issue #10)
- Buildings, projectiles and explosion VFX no longer animate by redrawing.
Static geometry is rasterised once in _draw(); moving parts are NeonPiece
children animated through node properties, which reuse the cached
geometry. Every NeonDraw call expands into four antialiased polylines, so
redrawing to move something re-tessellated all of it.
Test suite (issue #8): 1075s -> ~55s
- Runs from a copy on Termux's own filesystem. The project lives on
Android's FUSE bridge, read through proot, where load("res://Main.tscn")
alone cost 8.5s per test against ~2s natively - and nearly every test
loads it.
- Runs 6 tests at a time, in a single proot-distro login, with output
buffered per test and printed only on failure.
- --fixed-fps 60 pins delta instead of measuring the wall clock, so a test's
result no longer depends on how busy the machine is. Without it,
parallelism made two tests fail on 2 of 3 runs.
- A test passes only if it both exits 0 and prints ": PASS".
- 38 tests, green on three consecutive runs.
Bundles Carrois Gothic SC (Apache 2.0) with its licence text.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-11 15:00:41 +02:00
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for line in lines:
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NeonDraw.draw_glowing_line(self, line.from, line.to, glow_color,
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line.pulse * pulse, line.width, core_color)
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